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Baldwin Wallace University students arrested for reportedly operating drug lab

BEREA, Ohio — Four students from the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music led dual lives -- successfully pursuing studies in voice, piano and violin while operating clandestine drug labs to manufacture the illegal drug Ecstasy, officials say.

Lauren Pajerski

Benjamin Knight, 24, Lauren Pajerski, 22, Max Cickovskis, 22, and Jonathan Beckwith, 23, were indicted Nov. 16on numerous charges, including assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs and cultivating marijuana. Knight and Pajerski were also charged with theft and burglary.

Public records and interviews with police are filling in details of an unusual drug case that made news with the arrest of the students last month.

"I am just grateful nothing blew up and no one got hurt," said Berea police Detective Dennis Bort, the lead investigator who spent months gathering evidence. "The moral of this case is book-smart, street-stupid."

"Also, how does one make a hallucinogenic mushroom? Don't they grow, like other mushrooms?" - Contingent Cassandra

They were trying to make MDMA, not grow `shrooms....and they were stupid enough to try making Ecstasy in a school lab during the summer.

The moral is let people like Heisenberg and Pinkman make the drugs AND STAY AS FAR THE FUCK AWAY FROM DRUGS AS POSSIBLE, especially IF YOU ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO USE THE SCHOOL CHEM LAB TO MAKE ECSTASY.

Still, such people would be useful in my Siberian labor camp system, or maybe as permanent English instructors for the North Koreans already in Siberia working in those secret logging camps making wood for IKEA. Dennis Bort can come along too because he sounds like a smug, smallminded bastard.

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